This is an analysis of the poem Med En Brystnaal that begins with:

Istedet for en Piil fra Rosenskyen,
Et let bevinget, farlig Piil,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXaXaaXXXXXXXXXaXaXXXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001111100 11100101 111101110 110111 101111000 1111111110 110011110 1101110 1011000110 11111010 1111111010 111001010 101100111 1101110 11011 11111010 111110110 110101101 110110010 10010111 101101110 1111111 1110110110 11001111 111111010 11110111 1110011000 1101110 101111111 0100111100 111100100 110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1125
  • Average number of words per stanza: 212
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; piil, det, den, v are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words til, det are repeated.

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